ROBED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does robed mean? 

• ROBED (adjective)
  The adjective ROBED has 1 sense:

1. dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: ROBED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROBED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination

Synonyms:

appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed

Context example:

crimson-robed Harvard professors

Similar:

clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

So I turned at the door: I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There too was the broad sweep of the river Exe, the old stone well, the canopied niche of the Virgin, and in the centre of all the cluster of white-robed figures who waved their hands to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)